2010 Innovation Awards

Innovation Awards are given to those who have and are engaged with innovation that can impact society through technology commercialization. The awards recognize those individuals who have moved technologies from their research labs into the marketplace via licenses or have been issued U.S. patents during FY2010.

The University of Idaho also will recognize individuals who have completed steps along the process to patenting a technology. These recognitions include 22 disclosures of discovery and 10 patent applications from July 2009 through June 2010.

The annual awards also recognize companies that have licensed University of Idaho technologies.

Faculty, staff and students will be recognized Friday, Nov. 12, during a public reception from 2-4 p.m. in the Idaho Commons. Display posters will highlight their research.

The Office of Technology Transfer and the university want to encourage others to begin thinking about applying their discoveries in ways to directly benefit society by creating commercial products and services.